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Sunday, April 04, 2010

Bury Tomorrow - "Portraits" CD Review (Artery Recordings)

Bury Tomorrow - Portraits CD Review (Artery Recordings )Southampton’s Bury Tomorrow hit the national press with their 2007 EP “The Sleep of the Innocents” and a tour with Bring Me the Horizon. The band recently signed to Artery Recordings and their full-length debut, Portraits, was released in the US last month.

Portraits is a “buy-the-books” metalcore album that follows in the vein of US bands like Haste the Day and Killswitch Engage. The band combines rhythm guitarist Jason Cameron’s clean vocals with vocalist Dani Winter-Bates’ hoarse growls over a melodic verse / chorus / breakdown song structure. While this release doesn’t break any new ground, it is surprisingly catchy.

Bury Tomorrow’s strength is the individual vocal strength and interplay between the band’s two vocalists. Jason Cameron has a strong emotive voice that is able to rise above the emo-stylings of other clean vocalists in the genre and Dani Winter-Bates also has more power and range than the stereotypical growler. Two of the disc’s standout tracks (the first single “You and I” and the holdover from the first EP “The Woods Aren’t Safe For Us”) should give you an indication as to what the rest of the disc sounds like. The only exception from the band's core sound is the one ballad on the disc, "Relief". While I'm not much on ballads (including this one), Jason's vocal range and strength is enough to keep me from hitting the "skip" button.





Here are Bury Tomorrow's upcoming tour dates:

Apr. 13, 2010 -- Cockpit w/ Alesana, A Skylit Drive, Leeds
Apr. 14, 2010 -- The Rescue Rooms w/ Alesana, A Skylit Drive, Nottingham
Apr. 16, 2010 -- O2 Academy Islington w/ Alesana, A Skylit Drive, London
Apr. 17, 2010 -- Birmingham O2 Academy w/ Alesana, A Skylit Drive, Birmingham
Apr. 18, 2010 -- Academy 2 w/ Alesana, A Skylit Drive, Manchester
Apr. 19, 2010 -- King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut w/ Alesana, A Skylit Drive, Glasgow
Apr. 20, 2010 -- The Masque w/ Alesana, A Skylit Drive, Liverpool
Apr. 21, 2010 -- Arts Centre w/ Alesana, A Skylit Drive, Colchester
Apr. 22, 2010 -- Melkweg w/ Alesana, A Skylit Drive, Emarosa, Amsterdam
Apr. 24, 2010 -- Conne Island w/ Alesana, A Skylit Drive, Emarosa, Leipzig
Apr. 25, 2010 -- Matix w/ Alesana, A Skylit Drive, Emarosa, Bochum
Apr. 27, 2010 -- Abart w/ Alesana, A Skylit Drive, Emarosa, Zurich
Apr. 29, 2010 -- Razzmatazz 2 w/ Alesana, A Skylit Drive, Emarosa, Barcelona
Apr. 30, 2010 -- Sala La Riviera Madrid w/ Alesana, A Skylit Drive, Emarosa, Madrid

Links:
Bury Tomorrow